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There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark and the cold, squinting…
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at…
Zan Boag: As a space scientist, you’ve been gazing deeply into space. You’ve been living and breathing the idea of ‘space’. The universe has…
When it comes to measuring the vastness of outer space, you need to talk about time in order to talk about distance. Watching the…
Physicists are not sure what time is or how it works. The dominant position is the one articulated recently by Carlo Rovelli, who reminds…
No one can really know how much time they have left to live, though some have a better idea than others – the terminally…
Zan Boag: You’ve delved into the mystery of time over the course of your life, a journey that has ultimately led to you writing…
If philosophy is good at one thing, it’s pointing out things that seem so obvious we don’t even notice them and making them suddenly…
In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda and was met by…
